Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-18 Thread Dethe Elza
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that PyGame isn't worth the trouble for what you get. I'm not real crazy about wxWindows either. Right now I'm not concerned with cross-platform issues, but if I were I'd rather see time spent on making a strong, Pythonic UI library on top of pyobjc (ma

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-18 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 18, 2005, at 12:29, Chris Barker wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: On Jan 16, 2005, at 5:00, Pete wrote: I have been wondering what to use for my next project which involves a simple static window with graphical image background and drop down lists with dynamic content. If you use PyObjC, all of

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: PyOXIDE 0.7.1 - Cocoa based Python IDE

2005-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> PyOXIDE 0.7.1 is now available on my idisk (as PyOXIDE_0.7.1.dmg): Hey, no screenshots on the WWW site? ;-) Regards, Wolfgang Keller ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a RegEx question

2005-01-18 Thread Nicholas Riley
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:40:54PM -0500, Charles Hartman wrote: > find 'abca' in string 'abcabca' > > Every *single* RE I can think of misses the second instance (beginning > in position 3) in the first example, because it's eaten the beginning > of it in finding the first instance. Look

[Pythonmac-SIG] a RegEx question

2005-01-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Sorry, I know this isn't CompSci 101, but if any can help I'll appreciate it. My question about regular expressions (any language, I suppose) has to do with finding *overlapping* and (relatedly) *longest* matches. Two examples: find 'abca' in string 'abcabca' find longest '(a[a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Barker
Bob Ippolito wrote: On Jan 16, 2005, at 5:00, Pete wrote: I have been wondering what to use for my next project which involves a simple static window with graphical image background and drop down lists with dynamic content. If you use PyObjC, all of the widgets you need are already part of Cocoa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a question about paths

2005-01-18 Thread Jack Jansen
On 17 Jan 2005, at 20:01, Robert Costain wrote: I downloaded the source for Python 2.3.4 and ran configure, make and make install - I have some experience doing installations like this and am quite comfortable doing it. It appears to have been installed correctly, but when I run "python -V" in